Grand Theft Auto 2

What works

• installing
• playing
• mouse/keyboard input 

What does not

• ingame options (crashes the game)
• fullscreen fails when entering to game 

Workarounds

What was not tested

• entire game wasn't completed (only ~30 min gametime)
• multiplayer 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

rig: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE @3,2 ghz, 8 GB 1333mhz ram, Nvidia GTX 560 Ti 1GB, kernel 3.2.0-23-lowlatency , nvidia driver ver 302.17 , ext4 filesystem, MATE desktop environment(without compiz). game settings: 1280x960 wine virtual window, framerate limiter off wine virtual window is needed, otherwise game crashes setting the display (might be problem with my dualmonitor setup tho) framerate limiter on makes game run at 2000 fps or so.. ultra fast to control :D

Posted by Vike the Hube:

 

GTA2 has a hidden option to
use Glide for video.

1. Set up your controls etc using GTA2 manager.
2. Install a Glide wrapper- I use
http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/archive/GlideWrapper084c.exe .
3. wine regedit -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> DMA Design -> Screen:
   set "rendername" (a String/REG_SZ) to "3dfx.dll"
   set "videoname" (a String/REG_SZ) to "dmaglide.dll"
4. If you open GTA2 manager again, you need to setup the registry keys again-
GTA2 manager does not support Glide mode.
5. If you're using GTA2 v11 or greater, you will find the registry key in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
6. Launch GTA2 directly, i.e. create a shortcut to start in the GTA2 directory
and run wine gta2.exe .

Because of this I believe the problem is related to the DIB engine. But it's
been so long since I heard that information I can't be certain.

This may happen when you're using open source graphic card drivers. Try run game with disabled KMS. See there how to do it in Ubuntu (may work in other distros too): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting